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For a sage who wishes to attain to Yoga, action is said to be the means; for the same sage who has attained to Yoga, inaction (iescence) is said to be the means.

For the sage who wishes to climb to yoga, action is said to be the means. For that same sage, once he has climbed to yoga, calm is said to be the means.

Here Krishna describes yoga as a climb with two stages. For the beginner who wishes to ascend, action (karma) is the means: work done with discipline and without selfish motive purifies and steadies the mind. For the one who has already climbed, calm (śama) becomes the means of remaining there. Interpreters differ on whether the advanced yogi gives up outer work or simply acts from inner stillness, but the verse clearly presents action and quiet as phases of one path, not as rival ways of life.